As someone from a country with functioning police: It appears to me like the USA’s problem is that they don’t fund the police enough, especially their training.
Here the first training for police takes two years, and after that they still regularly have to continue training. It’s a hard process and only the ones who’re suitable make it.
In the USA it takes three months, of course your police doesn’t work properly. Defunding the police would absolutely not fix that.
This. Well, sort of. Maybe I’m seeing too much of my own experiences here but I feel like they could really stand to be regulated like licensed health professions. Minimum of an associates, sit for board exams, and that board exists to protect the public from you and has the authority to strip or restrict that license.
As someone from a country with functioning police: It appears to me like the USA’s problem is that they don’t fund the police enough, especially their training.
Here the first training for police takes two years, and after that they still regularly have to continue training. It’s a hard process and only the ones who’re suitable make it.
In the USA it takes three months, of course your police doesn’t work properly. Defunding the police would absolutely not fix that.
Defund the police originally meant “stop giving the local police departments high budgets for military surplus gear & vehicles”
This. Well, sort of. Maybe I’m seeing too much of my own experiences here but I feel like they could really stand to be regulated like licensed health professions. Minimum of an associates, sit for board exams, and that board exists to protect the public from you and has the authority to strip or restrict that license.